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λ A William IV rosewood card table, the breakfront hinged and swivel top above a frieze carved with scrolling leaves and flowers, the stem carved with tulips on a quatreform base and winged lion's paw feet on brass castors, possibly Irish, 73cm high, 91.6cm wide, 45.5cm deep.
A rare mid-18th century Italian Florentine Grand Tour scagliola table top by Don Pietro Belloni, the black ground decorated with a central pastoral landscape panel depicting figures, cows, a horse and sheep, with a river beyond with buildings, within a pierced and scrolled cartouche with a shell surmount, with scrolled shell and floral borders, with Commedia dell'arte figures in cartouches to the corners, signed and dated 'Petro. Belloni. Vallumbrosa. A Florenta. F. Anno. D 1754', with a three quarter moulded edge, 71.5 x 139.5cm, 5cm deep. Provenance: Purchased by the vendor's parents from Stair & Company Ltd. Successors to R. L. Harrington Ltd., 120 and 125 Mount Street, London, 19th May 1972. Don Pietro Belloni was a monk at the monastery of Vallombrosa near Florence and assistant to the abbot, Don Enrico Hugford. Enrico Hugford (1695-1771) was born in Florence, the son of a watch maker who emigrated to Italy to work for Cosimo III. He took orders in 1711 at the monastery of Santa Reparata in Marradi. Marradi was the site where selenite (a mineral essential for the working of scagliola) was quarried and it is here where the young Hugford learnt the technique of scagliola. According to John Fleming it was Hugford who 'advanced scagliola from being merely a cheap and easily worked substitute for marble and mosaic to a medium of such refinement that landscapes and figures could be depicted in it'. Don Enrico's work soon became much sought after by the English Grand Tourists of the day, especially large table tops to grace their country houses. In 1742 Sir Horace Mann paid Hugford 25 zecchins for a table top which he gave to Horace Walpole. Under Hugford's tutelage Belloni also began to produce scagliola slabs to satisfy the demand from the 'English milords' and his work is much better documented. The present lot fits into a group of table tops supplied to a small coterie of Anglo-Irish Grand Tourists who were in Rome in the middle of the 18th century. This group of friends comprised Joseph Leeson of Russborough House, Wicklow, Matthew Fetherstonhaugh of Uppark, West Sussex, Ralph Howard of Shelton Abbey, Wicklow and Robert Clements of Killadoon. Their similar tastes are indicated by the fact whilst in Rome they all had their portraits painted by Pompeo Batoni and they had commissioned landscape paintings by Claude Joseph Vernet. The table tops are all of a similar design, with a central landscape panel after painters such as Visentini and Locatelli, within a cartouche with floral and shell borders, some decorated with fruit, others with animals and Commedia dell'arte figures. A pair was supplied to Joseph Leeson of Russborough, Co. Wicklow in 1750. They are mentioned in correspondence between Sir Horace Mann (the English minister in Florence) and Horace Walpole on the 11th June 1747. 'Here is a scholar of his (Hugford) but vastly inferior to him and so slow in working that he has been almost three years about a pair for a Mr Leson and requires six months more.' While Belloni may have been criticised by Mann as being 'inferior' to Enrico Hugford, and for his slowness, the table tops he produced for Leeson and his friends are examples of the scagliola technique at its finest. According to Jonathan Cook in his article 'Masters of the Art of Scagliola', these remarks with regards to Belloni were unjust and 'to judge from his surviving work his technical abilities and decorative style was of a parity with his master'. Another pair, dated '1750', was supplied to Ralph Howard for his house, Shelton Abbey, and a pair dated '1754' were commissioned by Sir Matthew Fetherstonhaugh for his house, Uppark, in Sussex. It is surprising that no tables are known for Robert Clements, later 1st Earl of Leitrim, and there is a distinct possibility that this present lot could well be a missing table top commissioned by Clements. The date is the same as the Uppark pair and the decoration is very similar to the Leeson tables, now in the National Gallery, Dublin, Ireland. Other related tables include a pair previously at Adare Manor, Co. Limerick probably made for Thomas Dawson, Viscount Cremorne, and a pair of tables bearing the arms of the 1st Viscount Fane on elaborate giltwood bases exhibited at Dreweatt Neate 'Hidden Treasures, A loan exhibition', 25th November-2nd December 1997. Literature: John Fleming, 'The Hugfords of Florence', The Connoisseur, 136, October 1955, pp.106-110. Anthony Coleridge, 'Don Petro's Table-tops: Scagliola and Grand Tour Clients', Apollo, 83, March 1966, pp.184-87. Hugh Honour, 'Scagliola for Georgian Homes', Country Life, 22nd June 1967, pp. 1627-30. Gervase Jackson-Stops in The Treasure Houses of Britain, exhibition catalogue, National Gallery of Art, Washington/Yale University Press, 1986, pp.253-54. Jonathan Cook, 'Masters of the Art of Scagliola', Country Life, 29th September 1994. Uppark, West Sussex, a National Trust handbook, 1995, pp. 20-21, 54. Anna Maria Massinelli, 'Scagliola l'arte della pietra di luna', 1997, pp.24-37. Dreweatt Neate, 'Hidden Treasures, A loan exhibition', 25th November-2nd December 1997, pp.14-15. Jonathan Cook 'Walpole's table', Country Life, 13th July 2011, p. 85.
λ An Anglo-Indian hardwood octagonal occasional table, inlaid with amber stained bone and ivory, ebony and white stringing, with a star and urns of flowers with bands of scrolling foliage, the detachable top on a conforming folding base with pierced panels, late 19th / early 20th century, 51.5cm high, 55cm wide.
λ An Anglo-Indian hardwood octagonal occasional table, inlaid with bone and ivory and with ebony stringing, with scrolling leaves and flowers, the detachable top on a conforming folding base with mihrab arches, possibly Hoshiarpur, late 19th / early 20th century, 62.2cm high, 65.3cm wide.
A George IV burr oak and satin birch writing table, with kingwood banding, the crossbanded top inlaid with a gilt tooled green leather writing surface, above a pair of frieze drawers with false fronts to the reverse, on open trestle ends and scroll feet, united by a baluster turned stretcher, on sunken brass castors, 74cm high, 117.5cm wide, 60.5cm deep. Provenance: The Collection of Sir Jeremy Lever.
λ A George III Sheraton period rosewood and painted card table, the 'D' shape fold-over top banded in tulipwood and with a wide band of flowers, including roses and passion flowers, on a gilt ground, on twin gate supports, the frieze painted with tablets of musical trophies and paterae, on square tapering legs and brass caps and castors, 75cm high, 91.5cm wide, 44cm deep.
A mahogany triple pillar dining table in Regency style, the crossbanded top inlaid with stringing and with a reeded edge, with two additional leaves, on vase turned stems and reeded splay legs terminating in brass lion's paw sabots and castors, early 20th century, 74.4cm high, 107cm wide, 298cm long.
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